Nothing short of exhilarating

Brisbane Times checks some of the films which will be premiered in January in Australia:

Emily

Australian actor Frances O’Connor debuts as writer-director with what looks like a lush fiction about the woman who wrote Wuthering Heights, the mysterious Emily Brontë. Emma Mackey plays Brontë, looking very modern and pouty, beset by family squabbles with her brother Branwell (Fionn Whitehead) and sister Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling), as she falls for a dashing young clergyman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). It’s a made-up story, but reviews have praised O’Connor’s direction and Mackey’s performance. Definitely worth a look. Opens January 12. (Paul Byrnes)

The San Francisco Chronicle looks into the new 2023 films in the US:

Emily

Frances O’Connor, whose glowing performance in Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park” (1999) remains a fond memory, returns to 19th century British literature, this time as the writer-director of a biopic about the author of “Wuthering Heights,” Emily Brontë. The first good omen: O’Connor cast an age-appropriate actress, 26-year-old Emma Mackey, to play Brontë, whose great creative years were in her twenties and who died at age 30.

In select theaters starting Feb. 17. (Mick LaSalle)

Mental Floss recaps things we learned in 2022: 

85. A tiny book by Charlotte Brontë was rediscovered.

This year, an unpublished book penned by Charlotte Brontë was rediscovered and put up for auction. Last seen more than 100 years ago, when it was bought at auction for $520, the tiny volume is smaller than a playing card and titled A Book of Rhymes by Charlotte Brontë, Sold by Nobody, and Printed by Herself. Inside are 10 poems written when Brontë was around 13 years old. The future Jane Eyre author kept it humble, writing that “The following are attempts at rhyming of an inferior nature it must be acknowledged but they are nevertheless my best.” 

The book sold for $1.25 million to Friends of the National Libraries and was donated to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Yorkshire. Chief curator Ann Dinsdale told The New York Times that “It is always emotional when an item belonging to the Brontë family is returned home and this final little book coming back to the place where it was written after being thought lost is very special for us.”

KC Studio reviews the Wise Children's performances of Wuthering Heights in Brooklyn:

“Wuthering Heights,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, was the kind of show that patrons of the theater have come to expect — thrillingly engaging and boldly offbeat. Adapted and directed by Emma Rice for her theater company Wise Children, the British import was anything but a faithful take on its source material.

Rather, this interpretation of the turbulent relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff put a punk-rock spin on the brooding Emily Brontë novel, with the Gothic heroine — played to perfection by Lucy McCormick — at one point wielding a mic like a Victorian Patti Smith.

Indeed, in its sheer theatricality the show was nothing short of exhilarating. And its mellifluous score brought to mind the similarly imaginative “Hadestown.” (Calvin Wilson)

The Derby Telegraph shows the wonders of the Peak District:

Hathersage. The picturesque village is famous for local literary links and legends. It inspired author Charlotte Brontë when writing ‘Jane Eyre’, and nearby North Lees Hall was visited several times by the author in 1845, becoming the main inspiration for Thornfield Hall. These hidden historical gems are just one of the reasons that Hathersage has previously been named as one of the best places to live in the Midlands.

Condé Nast Traveller goes even further:

Hathersage
There are some cracking views to be had of the Peaks from the churchyard where [Little] John was (maybe) laid to rest while down in the stout little town centre lies The George, an ancient coaching inn that recently underwent a half-a-million-pound refurb with a wood-fired pizza oven and local real ales on tap in the bar and a nod to a famous former patron in the form of the Lady C. Brontë suite upstairs.
For it was Charlotte Brontë who, on her trips down from remote Howarth (sic), regularly visited this hostelry, even naming the protagonist in Jane Eyre after a former landlord and the Morton character after James Morton, the owner in Brontë’s time, who would regularly meet the author off her stagecoach before escorting her to the bar.

Sundiata Post (Nigeria) interviews the writer Roli Hazel Oburo:

Roli Hazel Oburo is a talented writer who has recorded impressive achievements at a young age. She is fascinated by Emily Jane Brontë, 19th century English novelist and poet, who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. Roli Hazel says Emily Brontë is more herself than she is.  (...)

Question: Juxtaposing two female writers – Emily Brontë and Chimamanda Adichie, how will you describe them in terms of resemblance or otherwise. And who are your role models?

Answer: With all due respect, I don’t think Emily Brontë and Chimamanda can be in the same sentence.

My role models are Shakespeare, Micheal Jackson and Emily Brontë.

Emily Brontë is more myself than I am. I love her and everything she represents. I literally talk about how I used to say “When I die I don’t want to end up in heaven and I don’t want to go to hell either”. I got introduced to Emily Brontë and read things she said that I say now and I never heard anyone say because people constantly disagree with those. It’s weird because how she was described is still how I’m described till date. I have no love for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so I’ll try to be as unbiased as possible.

Actually, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cannot be compared to Emily Brontë for everything she represents is different.

The top ten of songs in 2022 according to India Times includes:

Over two and a half chaotic minutes, "CUUUUuuuuuute'' spans genres, continents, and centuries, with Spanish superstar Rosalía weaving a patchwork of ear-tingling mayhem. First, a sample of Vietnamese social-media star Soytiet counting to 21. Next, a fusillade of pummeling techno and some rattling martial beats courtesy of Argentinian DJ-producer Tayhana that sound like a fork trapped in a garbage disposal. Then it all comes to a grinding halt for a stirring slab of torch balladry inspired by the Kate Bush classic "Wuthering Heights."  (Apoorva Patil) 

Salom (Turkey) reviews a local production of The Mystery of Irma Vep:

'The Mystery of Irma Vep' spans from Victorian melodramas, from farce, cheap thriller, horror and sci-fi series to ' Wuthering Heights ' and especially Alfred Hitchcock 's 'Rebecca', to vampires, ghosts that mocks numerous theatrical, cine matic and literary genres. is a terribly vicious satire with references to werewolves. (Erdoğan Mitrani)

Techprincess (Italy) recommends the documentary "Les hauts de Hurlevent" : amour, haine et vengeance as seen in Arte TV:

A Emily Brontë – e a Cime Tempestose, il romanzo che l’ha resa immortale, Arte.tv dedica “Cime Tempestose” di Emily Brontë: amore e vendetta. Del resto l’opera stessa è una storia di amore e vendetta in cui l’autrice affronta diversi tabù: da una famiglia di cui denuncia la tossicità all’incesto, che racconta attraverso l’amore proibito tra un fratello e una sorella. Il documentario prova a svelare l’animo tormentato della scrittrice che, attraverso il romanzo e l’adattamento cinematografico del 1939, con Merle Oberon e Laurence Olivier, è entrata nel cuore del grande pubblico. (Marco Brunasso) (Translation)

Prosieben (Germany) recommends books:

Sturmhöhe von Emily Brontë: Passt zu dir, wenn

... du Liebesgeschichten liebst, vor allem diejenigen, die nicht unbedingt ein typisches Happy End ansteuern. Düster, tragisch und fesselnd erzählt, wirkt Sturmhöhe eher aus dem jetzigen Jahrhundert als ein "verstaubter Literaturklassiker". (Translation)

Runalong the Shelves reviews Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste.